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Baan Pimalai is adding some color to her pristine white walls with an injection of leafy green. Between the jungle-covered hills and the coconut palm fringed shores, Koh Samui is an island rich in plants, trees and flowers so it was only right that Baan Pimalai have some of her own. We have grassed the garden so whether you want to kick a ball about with the kids or plant your sun lounger there for some bronzing, this could be the ideal spot. We’ve also added some plants to the Balinese shower. This downstairs bathroom has the best of an outside rain shower and being sheltered enough to use whatever the weather. The huge shower head is attached to the ceiling, but the wide gap between the wall and the ceiling will make you feel as if you are showering outside in the rain. We will be adding more plants and flowers to the garden and terraces over the next weeks to keep up the tropical feel of Baan Pimalai.

The scaffolding has finally come down and Baan Pimalai looks like the white, airy, contemporary villa she was always intended to be. There is a week or so of work to be done (pool to be tiled, kitchen installed etc) as well as lots of finishing, cleaning and tidying. After that, we can hang the lovely curtains we have chosen and ask our interior designer to install furniture, furnishings and artwork.

So its now the middle of July and the house is definitely progressing.. Myself and Walter (co-owner) decided that before everyone heads off on holiday for the summer that it was best to have a look and see where we stand.

There was the odd hint that really this was an excuse for a boys weekend away in Koh Samui. However what people failed to take into account was the fact that two important Buddhist holidays occurred over the weekend- Asarnha Bucha Day and Buddhist Lent Day. These are among the biggest Buddhist holidays in Thailand as as such all the bars and a good many of the restaurants were closed.

As such plenty of time was instead spent with the builders. Since we were last there they have

finished panneling in the ceiling, started laying tiles, finished the pool tanks, and started to tile the bathrooms (of course with the wrong tiles).

So the house is coming along and although there doesn’t appear to be much change since the last photos 2 weeks ago, the pool has been worked on and the outside plastering around the back has been done. The reason for a slight slow-down is that all the workers are busy completing another house on the development and a second one in another part of the island.

Baan Pimalai is the last house to be built on the site and once the other villas are finished and handed over (one is already, the other will be in less than a couple of weeks), we should have dozens of workers getting ours up to scratch. The completion date for Baan Pimalai is still mid August, kitchen will be installed 2nd August.